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Call for papers 2026 Revista de Arquitectura N.º 50. + N.º 51.
Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.°50
ARCHITECTURE AND INVESTIGATION + FREE THEME
50th Issue | 35th Anniversary
Deadline for paper submissions: March 2, 2026
https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/announcement/view/396
No. 51. CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURES AND URBAN PROJECTS:
New Themes and Dimensions of the City + FREE THEME.
Deadline for paper submissions: June 22, 2026
https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/announcement/view/397
Reimagining Quito: A post pandemic Andean city. Between dwelling and food self support
Authors
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Ana María Carrión Gándara
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5838-9499
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Karina Cazar Recalde
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5507-9428
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Mauricio Luzuriaga del Castillo
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3209-2726
Abstract
In the year 2025, a new virus strikes the planet with potentially catastrophic consequences. Given the end-of-the-world scenario, global lockdown is required. The mutated virus spreads faster than previous ones and cannot be eliminated by known scientific methods. The world is facing a health and economic collapse in which individuals are resisting confinement in limited spaces that provide neither safety nor quality of life. Latin America is one of the areas most affected by the pandemic. Reimagining the future of a Latin American city reveals the fundamental role that architecture plays in the productivity and quality of life of its inhabitants. Practicality will become the main factor in the design of living space. The building, as an object, will have to function as an autonomous and sustainable organism. Taking Quito, an Andean city, as a prototype and study laboratory, four possible architectural, typological, and urban scenarios that respond to survival through sustainable food production are explored. The results support two approaches, technological and phenomenological, in which the health of the human being is the parameter of all design decisions.Keywords:
re-imagine, reprograming, pandemic, sitopia, urban agriculture, foodReferences
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